It's also a joke about a preposterous voice: here and elsewhere, the duo reap rich rewards from their flair for accents abstracted into nonsense sounds.
The audience in attendance at the Comedy Central Roast were both shocked and amused by the preposterous nature of Gottfried's joke which seemed more ludicrous each time he repeated it.
When, in 1843, Congress considered financing Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph trial, the debate on the House floor turned into a carnival — Congressmen joked about the preposterous concept, even laughingly offering an amendment to share the money with a trial of mesmerism, or hypnotism, as a means of communication.
Static-X: Killing Joke dance-metal with magnificently preposterous hair.
Their defending was a joke, Alex Song was sent off for a preposterous elbow on Mandzukic and Benoît Assou-Ekotto headbutted his own team-mate, Benjamin Moukandjo.
The rules in strip clubs are often laugh-out-loud preposterous, but the consequences for violating them are no joke.
But reviewing them today makes me think that, as obviously preposterous as the plots were, they were something of a joke.
As fellow Brooklyn-dwellers will know, the G train is an insultingly preposterous excuse for a subway service; as urban infrastructure in a major metropolis, it's a joke.
The level of crazy was so preposterous for a harmless 45-minute beer that at first I was convinced my friend was playing a joke on me.
Stylization has given way to a sort of desultory, sarcastic naturalism, in which the joke lies not in Carreyesque abstraction and amplification but in a kind of muttered, balloon-popping underreaction to preposterous events.
